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Nature means Necessity.
Philip James Bailey
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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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I have a heart with room for every joy .
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As the master so the valet.
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It is much less what we do than what we think, which fits us for the future.
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Naught but God Can satisfy the soul.
Philip James Bailey
He who has most of heart knows most of sorrow.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling Bringing to light and use, else hid from all, The many sweet clear sources which we have of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms And marks the variations of all mind As does the needle.
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Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
Philip James Bailey
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
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Poetry is itself a thing of God He made his prophets poets and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.
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Remember that thy heart will shed its pleasures as thine eye its tears, and both leave loathsome furrows.
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Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
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The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
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Words are the motes of thought, and nothing more.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
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Let us think less of men and more of God.
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Leave the poor Some time for self-improvement. Let them not Be forced to grind the bones out of their arms For bread, but have some space to think and feel Like moral and immortal creatures.
Philip James Bailey
What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
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